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Exhibits B-D ("The 1981 Tablet") - Behold the first Tablet PC: a
rectangular block
of plastic with a sheet of paper glued to it (and not
well).
Exhibit G Video of "The 1990 Tablet" - non-functioning
mock-up
Exhibit H Forbes article with an image of 1990 Tablet - shows
improved glue
technology
He gets extra credit for basically claiming that
Alan Kay (as an Apple
Fellow) stealing the tablet
idea from him when he
saw it.
Now for the well published "The 1994 Tablet and
Video"
13. In 1994, while at the IDL, I designed and produced
another
tablet mockup ("the 19 1994 Tablet"), photographs of which are attached
as
Exhibits I-K.
Wait, what? Mockup? Didn't the OP promise "a
demonstration of a working tablet
device"?
So what do we see in Exhs. I-K?
Well, something that looks quite like tablets
later actually developed, and
yes, it does have the promised rounded corners.
But it is quite clear that the
front face surface is not flush - unlike that of the
iPad (and the Samsung
Tabs) and as claimed in the design patent. Oh yeah, and
the whole thing is
stylus operated.
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